Bravery or stupidity

[draggonlaady]

Either way, I'm gonna do it... Twilight, here I come.

Comments, as I think of them:

"Neither of us was what anyone would call verbose" Uhm... Do teenagers talk like that? I was pretty well a nerd in school, and don't recall using the word "verbose".

(Bruce says he did, so maybe I'm overly critical?)

Bella is a whiny-ass. The whole moving up to Forks thing is somehow her idea; hasn't been explained yet, but you'd think she was being made a martyr.

(about page 30 here)
Why the hell is she obsessing over the boy who was a rude ass and trying to come up with ways to brush off the guy who's being nice and helpful, all the while whinging about how she'll never fit in anywhere and nobody will like her? self-fulfilling much?

She's lived with her father every summer of her life, and she just NOW discovers that he can't cook? what the crap did she eat every prior summer?

Also, she's a whiny-ass.

150 pages in (yes all in one go;when I'm on a mission, I'm on on a mission, you sillies) and she's still a whiny-ass but less annoyingly so I guess. I have very little sympathy for the character-type in general, but can see where it'd be appealing to some... you know, basically anybody that likes rom-coms. Edward has mostly been your typical teen-age asshat boy, jerking between "stay away from me, I'm SOOOO bad for you" and asking her to go out and do things. She did finally figure out what he is, but decided (with all the wisdom of a whiny 17 year old) that he couldn't possibly be actually, you know, evil. And really, up to now he's done nothing to make her think otherwise.

General feeling at this point? I could put the book down and never wonder what happens to any of the characters. Not a compelling read for me. But I've suffered through worse than this has tossed up so far.

250 pages in, and it's awful damn sappy with the fluttery heart and agonized thoughts of having to live away from the object of her obsession. Definitely not the sort of thing I'd normally read, much to chick-flick/harlequin for me. Also, not much of a vampire story...other than one incident of moving fast and being strong, and several "mind readings" there's been nothing to indicate the boy's not just a big talker, so it's hard to call whiny ass really any more stupid than typical teenage emo girl.

And with that, I'm done for the night.... the dreaded sparkly in the sunlight scene should be just coming up though.

Comments

[sagaciouslu.livejournal.com]

*cue Wagner*

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Well, so far in the first dozen pages, I've a couple of times thought "teenagers don't talk like that" and gained the impression that our heroine is a whiny-ass. Other than that, nothing traumatic so far.

[evil-egg.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about the sparkly bit. According to my learned sister, the issue crops up once and never again. Throughout the entire series.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to say it doesn't matter.... once is too often. vampires should spark and burst into flame, not glitter. Pixies glitter.

[evil-egg.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be so bad if the author had managed to conjure up a good reason for her pixie-vamps, but I've not heard of one.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

well, so far all she's offered is himself saying that bursting into flame is a myth.

[evil-egg.livejournal.com]

Well, that's just disappointing.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Indeed; but so far, the book has basically all been dissapointment. I was expecting horrible writing, atrociously preposterous plot and characterization, and mostly, well, it's just mediocre.

[evil-egg.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Hardly worth all the attention, either positive or negative, then?

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. Right now I'm tossing it in "run of the mill fluffy chick flick crap that normal girls like and I have no use for"; I am only half way through so far though, so that opinion may change.

[evil-egg.livejournal.com]

Chicklit with fangs? At least you gave it a fair chance.